"Larry Jaques" wrote

You shouldn't watch TV, Tony. It's full of ads, CSPAN, and other
horrible, nasty, evil things.


Now, now, Larry. If not for C-SPAN, I would not own a TV. I may be the
only person in the universe who actually enjoyed watching the Alito hearings
:-)

As for that dual drill, the consensus is about what I expected:
1) It's a cheap piece of Chinese crap, and
2) It's not a very good idea anyway, so
3) It's just a gimmick.
I kinda wondered, myself, if Ron Popeil was behind it somehow.

It's too bad, in a way. Somebody _might_ have a good idea for a new tool
someday, and be quixotic enough to want to manufacture in the US and
bootstrap it into a business. But trying to sell it on TV would probably
work against him, since we all have been conditioned to be suspicious of TV
ads.


Advertising on TV allows advertisers to sucker-in more people at once.
Check your local Dollar Store or Big Lots. Things on TV usually end up
there within 4 months of their TV debut...at 1/4 the price.


Right. Except maybe for the other wacky thing I saw advertised on TV
recently: an electric(!) log-splitter(!!) for the yuppie-home-owner market.
Surplus inventory on _that_ one will probably have to be parted out.


"Free lifetime battery replacement" will probably mean that the
company will be bankrupt (or dissolve) in less than 3 years, _before_
they have to replace any.


"Lifetime" is certainly one of the slipperiest of weasel words, isn't it :-)

-- TP